Old Dominion on Breaking History with 7th Nomination and Win for Vocal Group of the Year, and What Advice They'd Share with Younger Musicians, "Don't Chase the Radio"

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Old Dominion on Breaking History with 7th Nomination and Win for Vocal Group of the Year, and What Advice They'd Share with Younger Musicians, "Don't Chase the Radio" | CMA Awards

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00:00I am so honored to be standing here with you all. You guys are nominated for the

00:04seventh time for the Vocal Group of the Year. Yes. Can you believe that? Yes and no.

00:09Yes and no. No, I totally understand. No, we can't. But no, in one way, I mean we worked really, really,

00:19really hard at this for a really long time, so in that aspect, yeah, we can

00:23believe it. We have, we feel a lot of love from our fans and from the community.

00:28It's been a really amazing ride. The fact that we got that far is what is hard to

00:33believe. Right, so I remember reading articles about how you guys have said

00:37that you haven't been able to pay your water bill like early in the early days.

00:40Oh yeah, still sometimes today too, but that's the business manager's fault. People just forget at that point.

00:48No, those were lean days, man. We were all struggling just like every

00:54other artist that moves here, every other writer that moves to Nashville that just

00:57has to dig their heels in and do whatever it takes, no matter how hard it

01:02gets, because you just love it so much and that's what we were doing. Yeah, and I

01:05mean, those are, I mean, you know, you're looking back, of course, it's always,

01:08those are some of the best times. I mean, you're just staying up all night, meeting

01:13people, playing songs, you know, everyone's pushing each other and it's

01:17it's an important, it's a special time. Absolutely, absolutely. And what about you guys? Is there any advice that you

01:25would give to new emerging artists since you guys have been so established

01:29and you are like the vocal group that everyone is watching? Is there anything

01:32that you would give advice on? Yeah, well, sorry, a couple, I mean, a couple things.

01:36First of all, is just be true to yourself and don't chase the radio and don't

01:40chase what you think you're supposed to sound like. Do things that excite you

01:45because if you're excited about it and you're writing your favorite song, it'll

01:48translate, you know, to somebody else. And it's been 10 years since you released

01:53your EP, right? Yeah. Yeah, so how have you guys stayed connected and as like, as a

02:00group and just stayed like formed in a tight-knit since then? I mean, you know,

02:05luckily, we are friends, you know what I mean? It's like we crack each other up

02:10and it's just, all we do is laugh and I don't know why that is, but we just

02:15happen to get along. We were that way before the band, so maybe that's it. Yeah, you guys

02:19were just friends already and it made it easy and especially traveling together

02:23so much. Yeah. Do you have something to say on that? Oh, no. I mean, it's just, it's been a beautiful ride with these guys.

02:28It's so great to have this friendship. You guys are incredible. You're some of my

02:33favorite artists. I have you guys on repeat, so a big fan here.

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